(b) any interest which a member may have in any matter in common with the public generally or any class or section of the public. 18 Prohibition against fees, etc., for promoting or opposing proceedings in Parliament (1) No member or person who is the employer, a partner or in the service of a member, whether in the practice of the profession of legal practitioner, parliamentary agent or otherwise, shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any fee, compensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any Bill, petition, resolution, motion or other matter or thing submitted or proposed to be submitted for the consideration of Parliament or a committee. (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable— (a) where the Prosecutor-General has, in terms of section 22, instituted the prosecution, to a fine not exceeding level seven or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment; or (b) where Parliament sits as the court by virtue of section 3(b), to a fine not exceeding twice the amount of the maximum fine in level fourteen or, in default of payment of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year; and, in addition, he or she shall be liable to repay the amount or value of the fee, compensation, gift or reward accepted or received by him or her. 19 False evidence before Parliament (1) Any person who wilfully and corruptly gives before Parliament or a committee a false answer to any question material to the subject of inquiry which is put to him in the course of any examination shall be guilty of an offence and liable to the punishments and penalties prescribed by law for perjury. (2) Any person who wilfully and corruptly gives before Parliament or a committee a false answer to any question material to the subject of inquiry which is put to him or her in the course of any examination shall be guilty of an offence and liable— (a) where the Prosecutor-General has, in terms of section 22, instituted the prosecution, to the punishments and penalties prescribed by law for perjury; or (b) where Parliament sits as the court by virtue of section 3(b), to a fine not exceeding twice the amount of the maximum fine in level fourteen or, in default of payment of the fine, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years. 20 Penalty for printing or tendering in evidence reports, etc., falsely purporting to be printed under parliamentary authority Any person who— (a) prints or causes to be printed a copy of any enactment or-of any report, paper, minutes or minutes of proceedings of Parliament or a committee as purporting to have been printed by the Government Printer or the Parliamentary Printer or by the 8